Management: Seeing Beyond the Tiger's Stripes

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin
Past Librarian of the US Congress

Of course this assumes one wants to take the time required to discover and make no mistake about it, real discovery demands much more than a cursory look.

Is yours a culture that looks for change or usually only sees the obvious?

Ask those you work with to find the hidden tiger in the above picture.

You may be surprised.

(The answer will be posted the end of this week.)

Discernment: The Power of the Second Look

"One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible."

Louie L'Amore
Author

Do you think Mr. L'Amore was only referring to places or could he have also been talking about ideas and concepts?

Maybe things aren't as they first appear.

Discernment: Born To Or Developed?

"Opportunities are seldom labeled."

John A. Shedd

2nd President and Chairman of Marshal Field and Company

Nor are looming disasters. It is up to us to see which is which, ideally before they are obviously one or the other to everyone else.

This quote was part of a group entitled "Discernment"; a word you don't often hear, a word the dictionary defines as "acuteness of judgment and understanding."

Having acute judgment and understanding is a very, very good thing particularly when one's ability in both is both contrary to what the majority thinks and proves correct.

But I don't think it just happens. Those who are more often than not right are so because they go about forming their opinions differently than do the rest of us.

They consciously, methodically reach their decisions.